Meme Coin Bloodbath Sparks Whale Feeding Frenzy - Doge, Pepe & SHIB Under Microscope

While retail investors panic-sell meme coins, crypto whales are making strategic moves that could signal the next major market shift.

Whale Watching Intensifies

Major holders are accumulating positions in Dogecoin, Pepe, and Shiba Inu during the current downturn. Their activity patterns suggest they're betting on a meme coin resurgence despite the broader market skepticism.

Pattern Recognition

Large wallet movements across these three assets show coordinated accumulation rather than panic distribution. The timing aligns with historical bottoms in meme coin cycles, though whether this is genius market timing or just rich people playing with digital monopoly money remains to be seen.

Market Mechanics at Play

These whale movements typically precede significant price movements by 24-72 hours. The current accumulation phase could either trigger a short squeeze or simply provide exit liquidity for smarter money - because in crypto, someone's always the greater fool.

Tech and media companies required to label AI content in India

According to drafts of the proposed framework, social media users will also have to declare if any content they upload has been generated or altered using AI tools. 

The amendments define AI-generated information as content “artificially or algorithmically created, generated, modified or altered using a computer resource, in a manner that such information reasonably appears to be authentic or true.”

Dhruv Garg, founding partner at the Indian Governance and Policy Project, said the rules are “one of the first explicit attempts globally to prescribe a quantifiable visibility standard.” 

If enacted, Garg surmised, it would require AI companies and content platforms to build automated labeling tools for detecting and marking synthetic content at the point of creation before it is accessed by the public.

Bollywood lawsuits part of deepfake regulation calls

India’s draft proposal comes on the backdrop of several lawsuits regarding deepfakes in Indian courts. Earlier this month, Bollywood actors Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan petitioned a New Delhi court to block and remove AI-generated videos that allegedly “infringed on their likeness and intellectual property.”

The couple, seeking almost half a million in damages, also claimed YouTube’s AI trainers unlawfully used public content to generate AI media featuring their images. 

Indian policymakers cited the cases as evidence that unregulated AI technologies could harm reputations, distort elections, and erode public trust in digital information ecosystems. 

The IT ministry said its new draft seeks to “build transparency safeguards into AI systems before risks are beyond control.”

India’s regulatory proposals follow similar laws in the European Union bloc, which finalized its AI Act requiring transparency labels for synthetic media. China also introduced mandatory watermarking standards for AI-generated visuals and text last year.

AI investment surge in India

The labeling proposal comes at a time when India is experiencing a surge in artificial intelligence investment. According to MeitY, the country surpassed $20 billion in cumulative and new AI investment commitments in 2025.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said earlier this year that India is his company’s second-largest market by number of users. Estimates from Spherical Insights also show private sector investments hit $11.1 billion, while public funding through government-led programs has reached $12.3 billion as of August.

A major share of this growth is buoyed by Google’s $15 billion AI hub under construction in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Announced during the Bharat AI Shakti event in October, the facility will be Google’s largest AI complex outside the United States, Cryptopolitan reported. 

Google mentioned that the data center will host gigawatt-scale compute power, new renewable energy infrastructure, a subsea data gateway, and domestic fiber connectivity.

The government’s IndiaAI Mission, implemented by MeitY and the IndiaAI Innovation Center, has already allocated more than 38,000 GPUs for nationwide access at subsidized rates. 

IndiaAI had approved 30 application development projects by mid-2025, all on responsible AI and solving problems within the jurisdiction, like disaster response, urban planning, and public health.

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